"It is a miserable thing to be a man of sense in a country where the generality of the people are fools."

"As for yourself, whom I have the honour to know, you are a person of distinction, and would have been an ornament to any court in Europe."

"It is the folly of too many, to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom."

"Argument is the worst enemy of truth."

"The reason why so few marriages are happy, is, because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages."